NextMaps›Exploration Projects›Shire of Menzies›Highway

Highway

Shire of Menzies

Highway is a lithium, nickel and tantalum exploration project in the Shire of Menzies, Western Australia. Its 4 WAMEX reports were lodged by 3 companies between 2005 and 2025, most recently Kalgoorlie Nickel Pty Ltd in 2025. Of those, 1 declares a resource.

Reports
4
Operators
3
companies on record
Worked
21yrs
2005 to 2025, 1 year ago
Main target
Lithium
Nickel most reported overall
Free AI report on Highway
NextMaps reads the open-file WAMEX reports over this ground into one cited prospectivity assessment: the geology, past programs, drill intercepts and the gaps nobody tested. New accounts get one free.
Get the free reportStart the report
Explore on the live map
Highway in the Shire of Menzies
Ground extent14 × 13 km
Report areas mapped2

Who has explored here

Companies that lodged reports over Highway, most active first.

Heron Resources Ltd 2Kalgoorlie Nickel Pty Ltd 1Kalgoorlie Nickel Project Pty Ltd 1

Who controls this ground today

Today 7 live and pending tenements sit over the Highway ground, held under 2 names.

Free account
  • Which tenements sit over this ground, and who holds each
  • The area they cover and when they expire
  • The main holders here, by number of titles
Create a free account
Premium
  • Whether that ground is meeting its expenditure commitments
  • Dormant tenements and active forfeitures
  • Mortgages, caveats and the expiry profile
See Premium

Exploration record on Highway

Local government
Shire of Menzies
Commodities targeted
Nickel 3 · Cesium 1 · Lithium 1 · Rubidium 1 · Tantalum 1 · Cobalt 1
Work on record
Co-funded drilling 2 · Core library 2 · Core photography 2 · Diamond drilling 2 · RC drilling 2 · EM logging 1 · Geophysical interpretation 1 · Geophysical logging 1
Resource declared
Yes, in 1 report: A70634 (2005)
Downloadable data
4 of 4 reports include a digital package
Report types
Co-Funded Drilling 2 · Annual 2
Reports by decade
22000s
2010s
22020s

Exploration reports

4 WAMEX reports filed over Highway.
Rather than open these one by one on the DMPE site, have the record over this ground read into one cited report, free for new accounts.
Most recent reports
ReportYearOperatorTitle
A148930 2025 Kalgoorlie Nickel Pty Ltd Highway Round 29 EIS Drilling:report R29DAG0075#2024-25
A138851 2024 Kalgoorlie Nickel Project Pty Ltd EIS Drilling at the Highway Prospect Targeting Nickel Sulphide (DAG2022/00824345, R26)
A72623 2006 Heron Resources Ltd Highway Project E29/139 (Menzies Project Combined Report C350/1997), Annual Report, 1 January 2005 to 31 Decem
A70634 2005 Heron Resources Ltd Highway Project, E29/139, North Coolgardie mineral field, North Coolgardie mineral field, North Coolgardie Min

Other projects in the Shire of Menzies

What does the exploration record say about Highway?

NextMaps reads the WAMEX reports over a chosen area into a referenced prospectivity assessment: the geology, the historical programs, the drill intercepts and geochemistry, and the untested gaps, with every claim cited back to its source report. New accounts include a free report. How the reports work.

Get the free reportStart the report Open this ground on the map
WA Mining Weekly The week's tenement movements, deals and ground released, free to your inbox.

Tenure data sourced from the DMPE public registers and SLIP WA (© Government of Western Australia, CC BY 4.0). Compiled by NextMaps. Verify against primary sources before reliance.